What we need from Fallout 4

Everyday we are waiting for 2 game announcements... half-life 3 and Fallout 4. Unlike some people, I'm much more interested in the next integration of Fallout. I own every fallout game on computer, 1,2, Tactics, 3 and New Vegas. If I had to pick a favorite I'd choose 3 by far because it feels the most like a post-apocalyptic game. But what about Fallout 4? What can we and should we expect from the future of this great franchise? Well here's my list.

Tense Explorational moments

So today I was playing Fallout 3 on the computer and started anew. I began the usual way, and went off to megaton, picked up the quest regarding the super-dupper mart and headed there to find food. Armed with a baseball bat and a 10mm pistol with 12 rounds left, I entered the store. sneaking and walking I made my way around the back until I was spotted by a knife wielding raider who promptly rushed me. I dispatched her, and the rest of comrades quickly picking up some more ammo and some different guns. With them all cleared I started to loot. Starting with the front of the store I got some goodies, and for no reason at all turned on an intercom. I than made my way to the back and started looting the back room when I heard something that sounded like "Were is everyone? God there all dead!" That put me into panic mode, I had ammo, but not for guns I had, and I was trapped. The ensuing fire fight was awesome. What happened? Well that intercom I turned on picked up raiders walking into the building which I heard, without the intercom I would not have known.

It's moments like this that make me loose hours in Fallout. Something as small as setting up an intercom to pick up raiders voices was something that I missed my first 5 play throughs. That's something I want to see more of in 4. You never seem to have to pillage through buildings like I'm sure you would in a wasteland.

Better sound detection

One of the most annoying things is running into shopping carts in the wasteland... or is that just me? Either way it seems that enemies never notice the sound of a full size adult walking into and pushing around a shopping cart. Think of how much cooler and intense it would be to have to side step around those... or use it to your advantage, using a silenced weapon to shoot a shopping cart could be cool and cause a great distraction...

New Engine...

We can all agree that the the Fo3 engine was pretty good for it's time, I mean it had some issues like bland textures and bugs... and crashes... and well looking ugly. But New Vegas took that a step further by using the exact same engine which made it look even worse. So I think 4 needs an entirely new engine built from the ground up with Fallout in mind. Don't use the Skyrim engine, new engine! (I didn't really like the skryim Engine, looked really... meh) Build it with dynamic lighting for interiors, great ragdoll physics that don't make a headshot launch the body half way across the wasteland.

Convincing world...

I have to say, Fallout 3's world and NPC's are way more believable than Skyrim's. Maybe it's the fact that Skyrim had like 7 voice actors, or at least non important NPC's were voiced by the same 7 people. Like the bard in whiterun was EVERYWERE!

Anyways, more voice actors, take people off the street to record some lines if you have to! Allow me to enter more buildings and more parts of buildings. The boards on a door won't stop me when I have a nuke lauchner, a Rock-It-Launcher and 100's of grenades... I'm pretty sure I can remove those boards. While some people didn't like the darkness of 3, I loved it, it made the atmosphere perfect. As well as the twisted characters.

That all being said...

I get what makes a fallout game, the dark humor and stuff, and 3 had that but we need more. New Vegas was worse than 3 because it didn't expand, it didn't upgrade anything. It added a better karma system and weapon mods, but other than that, it was a worse game because it was almost the same as 3. 4 needs to change allot. Take the best from all the games in the series and create an uber game!